Removal and Transport of Deceased Persons for HM Coroner in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire

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Stoke-on-Trent City Council awarded a contract to Not awarded for the removal of deceased persons for Her Majesty's Coroner in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire.

The service required a rapid and effective response when called upon by HM Coroner or officers acting on his behalf to remove a body from a premises or other situation within the area and transport it directly to the Public Mortuary, Hartshill.

As an ancillary part of the service, the provider was also required to deliver and collect bodies from the Public Mortuary or other local hospital mortuaries within the Coroner's District to the X-ray department of the Royal Stoke University Hospital and then elsewhere, normally though not exclusively to Birmingham Women's Hospital, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Sandwell General Hospital, Leicester Hospitals, Alderhay Hospital, or Walsgrave Hospital Coventry, with exceptional need for transport to or from locations further afield.

Additionally, the provider was to transport in the region of 12 bodies per year from the scene of death to the mortuary at the Royal Stoke University Hospital to facilitate Home Office post mortem examinations, then transport the bodies to any other location as required.

The contract value was £320,000, and the framework agreement period was from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2022 (2+1+1).